Russel B. Nye
Russel Blaine Nye (February 17, 1913 – September 2, 1993) was an American professor of English who in the 1960s pioneered popular culture studies.
Works (18)

American thought and writing -- The Colonial Period

American Thought and Writing -- The Revolution and the Early Republic

The Wizard of Oz and Who He Was
1957

The Democratic Experience
1973

A baker's dozen; thirteen unusual Americans
1956

Society and culture in America, 1830-1860
1974

Unembarrassed Muse
1970

The cultural life of the new Nation, 1776-1830
1960

Fettered freedom; civil liberties and the slavery controversy, 1830-1860
1964

American literary history: 1607-1830
1970

Book of Sonnets

Modern essays
1957

Structure in reading and writing
1961

New dimensions in popular culture.

Midwestern progressive politics
1951

William Lloyd Garrison and the Humanitarian Reformers
1955

Essays in honor of Russel B. Nye

This almost chosen people
1966